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The Old Dope Peddler
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"The Old Dope Peddler" is a satirical song by Tom Lehrer. It was on Lehrer's first album Songs by Tom Lehrer from 1953, and a new live recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960. The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time titled "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960. The verses of the original asserted that "He made the night a little brighterWherever he would goThe old lamplighterOf long, long ago" The song was banned from broadcast by the BBC.
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"The Old Dope Peddler" is a satirical song by Tom Lehrer. It was on Lehrer's first album Songs by Tom Lehrer from 1953, and a new live recording on Tom Lehrer Revisited in 1960. The song is a parody of a popular tune well known at the time titled "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, a hit first for Kay Kyser in 1947, and continued to have popular new recordings to 1960. The verses of the original asserted that "He made the night a little brighterWherever he would goThe old lamplighterOf long, long ago" It goes on to say that if there were sweethearts in the dark, "he'd pass the light and leave it dark," and concludes by explaining that now, the old lamplighter turns the stars on at night and turns them off at dawn. Lehrer's parody switches the song's protagonist to "the Old Dope Peddler" selling "powdered happiness". It has lines like this: "He gives the kids free samplesbecause he knows full wellthat today's young, innocent faceswill be tomorrow's clientele" The song was banned from broadcast by the BBC. Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, and on UK electronica duo Akasha's track "Interzone (Tapping a Guitar with Beef on a Lonely Summer Day in Menlo Park)", remixed by Menlo Park on the 1999 album Cinematique - The Remixes. The song was covered by Meat Puppets.
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